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As announced by the prefecture, a nuclear exercise is underway, this Thursday November 14, 2024in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (Manche).

Alarm and SMS

A alarm sounded from 12:48 p.m. It lasted about five minutes.

People present in the commune of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin also received an alert message by SMS the contents of which are:

EXERCISE EXERCISE EXERCISE Manche prefecture. Cherbourg naval base burns. No risk for the population, no release. As a precaution, stay at home to allow emergency services to intervene properly. Please disregard the content of this message.

Technical problem : note that the accents are not included in the message, so that there are mistakes in “prefecture” and “precaution”.

Unknown scenario

This Thursday and Friday, a nuclear exercise with a focus on civil security is being organized jointly by the Manche prefecture, the Channel and North Sea maritime prefecture and the Defense Safety Authority.

Its purpose is to test the specific intervention plan of military port from Cherbourg which would be implemented in the event of a radiological event.

For this exercise, a precise but unknown scenario of the different civil and military actors has been established.

In particular, he had to test the FR-Alert alert and information systemamong the population within the perimeter of two kilometers and up to five kilometers around the naval base. Hence the sending of the SMS.

Nothing has filtered out about the rest of the operations.

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